When William Thomas Ewell was born on 5 October 1846, in Council Bluffs, Pottawattamie, Iowa, United States, his father, William Fletcher Ewell, was 30 and his mother, Mary Lee Bland, was 28. He married Martha Platt Wall on 23 June 1873, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 5 daughters. He lived in Goshen, Juab, Utah, United States for about 40 years and Goshen, Utah, Utah, United States in 1900. He died on 12 February 1916, in Santaquin, Utah, Utah, United States, at the age of 69, and was buried in Santaquin City Cemetery, Santaquin, Utah, Utah, United States.
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Historical Boundaries: 1851: Utah Territory, United States 1851: Utah, Utah Territory, United States 1896: Utah, Utah, United States
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English (Kent): habitational name from Ewell Minnis or Temple Ewell (Kent) or possibly from Ewell (Surrey), all named from Old English ǣwell ‘river source’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
Possible Related NamesWilliam was born during almost incredible hardships in Council Bluffs, Iowa where the Mormon saints had fled because of religious persecution. He was the 5th child. His father and namesake died when …
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